Word: shyness
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...mate for life (or, as scientists call it, "pair bond"). The brain releases gobs of it during orgasm, mothers are awash in it during breastfeeding and, in clinical trials, a spritz of oxytocin has been shown to reduce anxiety, increase feelings of generosity and even ease the symptoms of shyness. Conversely, researchers are beginning to discover that low levels of the hormone - or the body's faulty response to it - may contribute to severe social dysfunctions like depression and autism...
Although their new movies feature drugs, Sir Ben and Apatow rarely use the D word when discussing them, as if willing pot out of delinquency and into mere dysfunction. For The Wackness, weed's a crutch; it takes the edge off loneliness, ennui or the shyness people feel around the opposite sex. Luke, the dealer, lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side and is on his way to college--his safety school, but still. In Weeds, Mary-Louise Parker's a pot dealer who sells to successful, bored, suburban business types. Even the protagonists of Harold & Kumar Escape from Guant?...
...everyone going crazy? Is it something in the water, the crushing weight of soulless international imperialistic consumer capitalism, or perhaps those accursed trans-fats? Christiopher Lane, the author of “Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness” has a different suggestion. Lane argues that psychiatrists have been systematically narrowing the acceptable range of human behavior by increasing the number of diseases afflicting the human mind. To illustrate his point, Lane explores the expansion of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)—the handbook listing the types of mental disorders and their...
...Lane specifically focuses on “social phobia,” which he personally believes is in reality nothing more than shyness. Criterion D for Social Phobia in the DSM is “the social or performance situation is avoided, although it is sometimes endured with dread.” If you experience dread in performance situations and “a marked and persistent fear of social or performance situations in which embarrassment may occur” (Criterion A), then you may have Social Phobia, just like an estimated three to 13 percent of the general population...
...Michaelis exposes the self-deprecation beneath the existentialist doubts in the comics, examining Schulz’s distant relationship with his mother, the series of women with whom he unsuccessfully fell in love, his Christian faith, and his desire to be liked by everyone despite his awkward shyness. This leads to Michaelis’ thoughtful thesis on the reasons behind the success of “Peanuts”: “Charlie Brown reminded people, as no other cartoon character had, of what it was to be vulnerable, to be small and alone in the universe, to be human?...